Dušan Basta

Early years

The first football step Basta took was when he was eight – in local football club PKB from Padinska Skela, the suburb where he was born and raised. He then signed for Red Star aged thirteen, becoming a part of one of the most talented generations in the history of Red Star's youth academy.

Red Star Belgrade

Basta signed his first professional contract at the age of 17, when he together with a few teammates from Red Star's youth team broke into the senior squad. He made his professional debut on his 18th birthday (18 August 2002) in a 1–0 defeat from Sutjeska in Nikšić, Montenegro. In the following, his second season, he played on loan in Jedinstvo Ub (along with Aleksandar Luković and Boško Janković). Over the season Basta displayed great technique, and pass accuracy and soon became one of the most important players for Red Star Belgrade. In April 2005 Basta suffered an injury which kept him out of football for five months. By the end of his spell at Red Star, Basta won six trophies with Red Star Belgrade, including three domestic doubles.

Udinese

In July 2008 he moved from Red Star Belgrade to Udinese. He played in pre-season friendlies for Udinese. However, Udinese did not wish to allocate one of the two non-EU registration quota on Basta, and Basta moved to Lecce on loan from Red Star Belgrade, in order to borrow the quota from Lecce, like his teammate and countryman Aleksandar Luković. After returning to Udinese in summer 2009, he…

Basta debuted for his country against Spain on 31 March 2005. He substituted Ognjen Koroman in 77 minutes. He collected his second cap in Tunisia. He was in Serbia and Montenegro team for World Cup in Germany, but he did not play. For Serbia U21s selection he played 18 games and he played on two European Under-21 Football Championship, First time in Portugal 2006 he reached semi-final, second time he became losing finalists in the Netherlands 2007. He was called up by the caretaker of the Serbia national football team, Radovan Ćurčić, for two friendly matches, against Mexico and Honduras, as a replacement for the injured Neven Subotić. Shortly after being called up, he suffered an injury. Ćurčić called up Nemanja Tomić, Adem Ljajić and Andrija Kaluđerović instead. In June 2018, Basta was left out from Serbia's 23-man squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. His final international was a March 2018 friendly match against Morocco.

Club

As of 1 July 2019

International

As of 13 December 2018

Scores and results list Serbia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Basta goal.

Red Star Belgrade Serbian SuperLiga: 2005–06, 2006–07 Serbian Cup: 2005–06, 2006–07 Lazio Coppa Italia: 2018–19 Supercoppa Italiana: 2017